Cultural imperatives and the ethics of verbal autopsies in rural Ghana
Background: Due to a paucity of statistics from vital registration systems in developing countries, the verbal autopsy (VA) approach has been used to obtain cause-specific mortality data by interviewing lay respondents on the signs and symptoms experienced by the deceased prior to death. In societie...
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Main Authors: | Raymond A. Aborigo (Author), Pascale Allotey (Author), Paulina Tindana (Author), Daniel Azongo (Author), Cornelius Debpuur (Author) |
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Taylor & Francis Group,
2013-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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